Unwilling
Just after hanging up the water, Jiang Zhizhi received a call from Lin Qingyu.
"Zhizi, Teacher Zhou said you went to the hospital. What happened to you? Where are you now?" Lin Qingyu asked anxiously as soon as the call was connected.
"I'm getting an IV drip at the hospital affiliated with the Chinese Medicine Hospital. I'm fine now."
"How did you do on the test?"
Jiang Zhizhi smiled awkwardly, "Not very good."
"It doesn't matter. It's just a junior high school math league. Xu Qingbo and I will come to see you right now. If you want to eat anything, we can buy you lunch on the way." Lin Qingyu said.
"No, there's another test this afternoon. You guys should get some rest."
"How can we rest in peace when you're in the hospital? Never mind. I'll just buy you some food on the way. You wait for us there."
After saying that, Lin Qingyu hung up the phone.
It only takes a dozen minutes to take the bus from Nanjing University to the Affiliated Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine. At around 11:40, Lin Qingyu and Xu Qingbo arrived at the emergency room where she was.
Jiang Zhizhi's water is already half gone.
Lin Qingyu brought three boxed lunches, and the three of them ate their lunch at the iron counter next to the bed.
"By the way, Zhizhi, how much of the test paper did you finish?" Lin Qingyu thought of the exam in the morning again.
"I have finished the fill-in-the-blank questions at the beginning, and only did one of the three big questions at the end." Jiang Zhizhi said.
"That's not bad, haha. I didn't even finish the last question, so we're pretty much the same." Lin Qingyu laughed and put her hand on Xu Qingbo's shoulder. "However, Xu Qingbo seems to have finished everything. Zhizhi, I think you're going to lose to him this time."
Xu Qingbo frowned slightly, "It doesn't count this time."
Jiang Zhizhi hadn't finished her test paper, and she was sick, so she wasn't in good shape for the exam. Even if she won, it wouldn't have been meaningful.
"Zhizhi, should you be fine for your afternoon exam?"
"I feel much better now. I should be fine this afternoon."
"It just so happens that there will be competition questions in the afternoon. They are more difficult than the questions in the morning and the scores are higher. Maybe you can catch up!" Lin Qingyu comforted her.
"Well, let's work hard together."
In the afternoon, Jiang Zhizhi's condition returned to normal. The four comprehensive questions on the second test paper were much more difficult than those in the morning, especially the last question, which was beyond the syllabus.
Although Jiang Zhizhi finished all four questions, she was not sure about the last two questions except the first two.
This feeling of being completely out of control in a math test was the first time since I entered junior high school.
The second test lasted three hours, and it was already half past five when I finished.
Coming out of the examination room, everyone looked unhappy, obviously stumped by the test questions.
When gathering and dispersing at the school gate, Jiang Zhizhi met Yao Jiaqi.
Seeing Jiang Zhizhi, Yao Jiaqi immediately walked over to her and asked, "Jiang Zhizhi, I heard that you only finished half of your exam this morning before going to the hospital?"
"Well, that's about right." Jiang Zhizhi said.
"How did you do on the test this afternoon? Did you finish the last two questions?"
"I don't know. Let's wait and see when the results come out." Jiang Zhizhi herself was not sure.
"Zhizhi!"
Lin Qingyu and Xu Qingbo came out of the examination room together. Seeing Jiang Zhizhi, they hurried over and said, "Zhizhi, were you okay during the afternoon exam? Did you finish the paper?"
"Yeah, I'm fine." Jiang Zhizhi left Yao Jiaqi and walked in front of them.
Xu Qingbo asked, "Jiang Zhizhi, do you have anything to do tonight?"
"I'm fine today, what's wrong?"
Lin Qingyu took Jiang Zhizhi's hand and said happily, "Xu Qingbo said that we should go to his house to review it together."
"Review?" Jiang Zhizhi really wanted to know Xu Qingbo's opinion on the last two questions. "Okay then."
On the way, Jiang Zhizhi sent a message to her mother and Lu Xiye respectively.
Lu Xiye replied immediately.
【Where have you been? 】
[After the exam, I reviewed it with Lin Qingyu and Xu Qingbo.]
【When will you come back? 】
Later.
When they arrived at Xu Qingbo's house, news came back from Cheng Yuping.
[Got it. If it's too late, give me a call and I'll pick you up.]
Unlike Lu Xiye, Xu Qingbo lives with his parents and does not have a separate study room. However, his bedroom is large and has a separate study area. He moved in a square low table, and the three of them sat on the carpet to review together.
Lin Qingyu sat cross-legged and couldn't help but look around. "Xu Qingbo, your room is so clean."
Clothes, desks, bed covers and everything else were neatly arranged. Even her room as a girl was not as clean and tidy as Xu Qingbo's.
Xu Qingbo smiled sheepishly and said, "My mother sorted them all out."
Turning around, he took out a stack of draft paper he often used from the drawer of the desk behind him and placed it on the coffee table.
"Qingbo, I have prepared some fruits for you. You can eat them with your classmates." Xu Qingbo's mother came in with two fruit plates. She was wearing an old-fashioned thin white sweater and her hair was simply tied up. She looked very knowledgeable at first glance, and her eyebrows and eyes were very gentle, which made people feel comfortable.
"Thank you, Auntie." Jiang Zhizhi and Lin Qingyu said politely.
Xu Qingbo's mother put the fruit down and said with a smile, "You guys go ahead and learn. Auntie will go cook. You two can stay for dinner later. I'll drive you home in the evening."
After she finished speaking, she went out, carefully closing the door before leaving.
Lin Qingyu looked back at Xu Qingbo's mother after she left, and couldn't help but exclaimed: "Xu Qingbo, your mother is so beautiful."
Xu Qingbo smiled and distributed the draft paper to them. "Let's start with the test from this morning. Do you remember the questions?"
"I remember the last fill-in-the-blank question was about an inverse proportional function," Lin Qingyu said, starting to write on the scratch paper. "I really can't solve this problem. What's your answer?"
“5.”
“5.”
Xu Qingbo and Jiang Zhizhi said in unison.
The corner of Lin Qingyu's mouth twitched.
It turns out she didn't make it...
"Why?" she asked resentfully.
"For this problem, you need to first find the value of yA, then substitute yA into the equation to find the value of K, and then set the two roots xB and xC..."
While explaining to Lin Qingyu, Xu Qingbo skillfully wrote out the formula on the draft paper.
Lin Qingyu felt overwhelmed just by listening to Xu Qingbo's explanation of the questions. As expected, the questions in the league were really weird.
…
"Jiang Zhizhi, I'll write out the last two questions of the first test, and you can try them."
During the exam, Jiang Zhizhi failed to answer these two questions. Xu Qingbo wanted to know Jiang Zhizhi's true level so that he could estimate her real score based on his own score.
Jiang Zhizhi wrote down the answers to both questions and the process of solving them.
Lin Qingyu on the opposite side was stunned by Jiang Zhizhi's skillful calculations.
Alas, compared with Jiang Zhizhi and Xu Qingbo, she is still a long way behind in mathematics.
However, she was not very good at mathematics, and her strengths were in the liberal arts subjects of Chinese, English, history and politics.
In this mock exam, she ranked first in the class in both history and politics.
Her Chinese score was only one point lower than Jiang Zhizhi's.
Xu Qingbo took Jiang Zhizhi's draft paper and carefully read the process of the two questions. A look of joy appeared on his brows. "Jiang Zhizhi, our answers are the same."
Sure enough, Jiang Zhizhi is his rival.
After dinner, they reviewed the second test in the afternoon.
The second test is much more difficult than the first test, and there are only four questions in total.
Lin Qingyu only answered the first two questions.
When I reviewed the question, I found that the process of the second question was still wrong.
Jiang Zhizhi and Xu Qingbo had the same answers to the first two questions, and the process was also very similar.
The answer to question 3 is the same, but the process is different.
For the fourth question, Jiang Zhizhi found one more value than Xu Qingbo, and the process was also different.
In the Math League, both the process and the answer are worth high scores, and different processes will also lead to different scores.
After reviewing everything, Xu Qingbo had a bad feeling in his heart.
"However, no one knows the result until the test scores come out. I remember that the test scores will come out in a month, right?" Lin Qingyu noticed Xu Qingbo's emotions and comforted him.
"Well, in previous years it came down around April 15th," said Xu Qingbo.
"Then we can have a good rest for the next month!" Lin Qingyu said happily.
Xu Qingbo pursed his lips and did not respond.
The midterm exam was also in mid-April. In this mock exam, he was ten points behind Jiang Zhizhi. If he had slacked off even a little, he might have been left far behind by Jiang Zhizhi.
It was already 9:30 in the evening when I left Xu Qingbo's house.
I got home around ten o'clock.
Jiang Zhizhi got out of the car, said goodbye to Xu Qingbo and Xu Qingbo's mother, and turned back to the community.
As soon as she entered the community gate, she saw Lu Xiye sitting on the leg-training machine in the fitness equipment area. Only then did she realize that she had stood up Lu Xiye.
"Your 'later' means until ten o'clock in the evening?" Lu Xiye's tone was a little angry.
"Sorry, I didn't expect to review it so late. You won't be waiting here for me, right?"
You can stay at home, why are you waiting for her here?
Jiang Zhizhi didn't understand him.
"Tsk, how could I wait for you here on purpose? I just came down to get some fresh air." Lu Xiye rolled his eyes at Jiang Zhizhi, "Whose car was that just now?"
"Xu Qingbo's family. Her mother drove us back."
"Are you reviewing the situation at Xu Qingbo's house?" Lu Xiye suddenly raised his voice.
"Yeah." Jiang Zhizhi nodded. "His home is in the staff housing complex at Nanjing University, so it's quite convenient."
"Hmph, you two have a really good relationship." Lu Xiye said in a sour tone.
Jiang Zhizhi sat down on the leg-training machine on the other side, leaned back, and relaxed. "No tutoring today. You should go back and rest early."
Seeing her tired face, Lu Xiye asked curiously, "How did you do on the exam today?"
He knew that Jiang Zhizhi had already started preparing for this math league years ago, and almost every time she tutored him, Jiang Zhizhi would be doing math problems beside him.
"It's not great, but it's okay." Jiang Zhizhi smiled awkwardly. "Anyway, most things in the world can't be perfect. As long as I try my best, it's fine."
"What's the meaning?"
"Nothing, go back and rest."
Jiang Zhizhi lifted her legs and stepped over the leg-training machine, picked up her schoolbag, and stood up and left.
Lu Xiye also hurriedly followed.
After entering the apartment building, Jiang Zhizhi climbed two steps to the door of her home on the first floor. She took out the key but stopped.
"But, I still feel a little bit unwilling."
Lu Xiye stood at the stairs in a daze, but before he could ask, Jiang Zhizhi had already opened the door and walked in.
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